A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF BUILDING REGULATIONS LONDON

1212 – Thatched roofs banned after a major fire

1666 – Great Fire of London

1667 – London Building Act – introduction of Surveyors

1707 – 1709 London Building Acts

London Building Acts – modelled throughout country

1844 – Metropolitan Building Act

1858 – Public Health Act

1858 – Local Government Act - Deposit of Plans and Drawings

1875 – Public Health act – DPCs, the structure of buildings, ensuring stability and prevention of fires, the drainage and provision of air space around buildings, to ensure health considerations Model By Laws consolidate Building Control

1905 – Model Bye Laws extended by parliament

1925 – Public Health Act

1936 – Public Health Act – British Standards as compliance indicator, Singe Model – voluntary (adoptive) not mandatory

1930 – London Building Act Contains the first party wall act

1939 – London Building Act – contains the amended party wall act

1945 – Water Act

1959 – Rights of light

1959 – Town and country planning

1961 – Public Health Act

1965/1966 – Building Regulations – mandatory (paid out of rates) – Repealed local acts and gave power to minister to make building regs

1984 – The Building Act – consolidated

1996 – Party Wall Act

2000 etc – Building Regulations